Can you forgive someone who has betrayed you?
Can betrayal be written off like some bad debts that cannot be claimed back?
Can it be laid down and buried deep within our hearts never to be dug ouT?
Or can it be thrown away like a stone that you pick in the park?

Betrayal is not deceiving although it does play a part.
Betrayal does not coincide with cheating even though it contains some element of it.
Betrayal is not treachery even though it does orchestra the whole show.  
Yet it is a combination of all that set people to the journey of hurt & pain.

Many have told me that humans are kind and compassion from heart. Yet working in this cosmopolitan city, I could not help but feel sorry and helpless when being betrayed or betraying people is but part and parcel of our life.

Many say Love can cure any wound and Time will heal all wound.
But when betrayal strikes from the one you love or from your most trusted friends or co workers. It does not matter how much time has passed, it will never wash away the hurt and scars inflicted by them. These painful memories shall follow, till the day you are laid to rest.

Being human beings, we need each other to survive. So trust and believe in others developed.  As we evolved to become higher beings, we develop other feeling like compassion, love and care for others.
Yet because we have love and care in our heart, we grief and sorrow when betrayal set in.
Yet because of trust and believe in others, we rather be withdrawn and chose solitude. 

So what's that thing that made us become such devious creature preying for unknowing victims? Since when have we fallen into such depth that we can just betray our friends or love ones just for petty gains and personal favors?!  

Being a city dweller, you may find that there are some friends you might have known for many years. But when you come closer, you may find that they are actually strangers you have known in names, especially when favors, gains and power are involved. 

So how do you discern who's your real friends that will lend you a helping hand when you are in dire situations and who are "friends" that will put a dagger behind you, when you turn your back against them?

And how do you distinguish which are docile creatures in this concrete forest and prevent yourself from being devour by creatures like tigers, crocodiles, wolves, vipers...........that are concealing themselves until such time when their tails could no longer be concealed?     
 
Trusts and faith are so frail in this trying time. It breaks and erodes instantly without warning, destroying all friendship and love we have painstakingly built over the years.  

Life is made up of so many feelings and emotions. Even though these feelings and emotions do forge to make us become a better person, betrayal is something that I wish I have never cross path with.

by Blue lunar